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Spatial Databases

Summary

The course is focused to storage, indexation, maintenance and querying of spatial data in object-relational databases such as Oracle or PostgreSQL+PostGIS and in NoSQL databases (namely graph, document, multidimensional) such as Gephi, Hadoop, MongoDB, storage of vector, raster, TIN and lidar data, extension of SQL for spatial operations, advanced methods of indexation of spatial data, spatial trajectories, data mining of spatial data.

Literature

YEUNG A.K.W, HALL G.B: Spatial Database Systems. Desing, Implementation and Project Management. Springer, Dordrecht, 2007. 553 p. ISBN 10-1-4020-5393-2.
MANOLOPOULOS Y., PAPADOPOULOS, VASSILAKOPOULOS M. Spatial Databases: Technologies, Techniques, Trends. Idea Group Publishing. 340 stran, Hershey, 2005. ISBN 1-59140-387-1
OBE R., HSU L. PostGIS in Action. Manning Publications, 2011. ISBN 1935182269 
SULLIVAN, D., 2015. NoSQL for mere mortals. Addison-Wesley, Hoboken, NJ. 510 s. ISBN 978-0-13-402321-2 

Advised literature

MARQUEZ A. PostGIS Essentials. Packt Publishing, 2015. ISBN 978-1-78439-529-2 
SAMET H. Foundations of Multidimensional and Metric Data Structures, Morgan Kaufmann, 2006.
PostGIS 3.0dev Manual. Available at https://postgis.net/docs/
BEINAT, E., GODFRIND, A., KOTHURI, R. Pro Oracle Spatial for Oracle Database 11g. Springer, 2007, 787 p. ISBN 1590598997 .
RIGAUX P., SCHOLL M., VOISARD A. Spatial Databases with Application to GIS. Kaufmann, San Francisco, 2002. ISBN 1-55860-588-6. 410 pages.


Language of instruction čeština, čeština, angličtina, čeština, angličtina
Code 548-0921
Abbreviation PDB
Course title Spatial Databases
Coordinating department Department of Geoinformatics
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Jiří Horák, Dr.